American Literature Quiz 38 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the name of the process that Krakauer and his group mates go through before moving higher up on the mountain?
2. Romanticism focused mostly on
3. The reader is TOLD what a character is like
4. Andres Jackson was:
5. Exposed and barren and often windswept; not hopeful or encourage:DEPRESSING (adj) The ..... landscape, with its barren fields and gray skies, gave me a feeling of hopelessness.
6. "A little later, he came back on and rasped in a slow, horribly ..... voice, "Hi sweetheart. I hope you're tucked up in a nice warm bed. How are you doing?""
7. Abnormal, unusual
8. What oratorical technique is not found in Franklin's speech?
9. Read the sentences. As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges if I were not able to go running. Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts. What is the BEST way to combine the sentences to maintain their detail while avoiding repetition?
10. From reading "The Earth on Turtle's Back, " you can tell that the Onondaga value certain things in culture. Which of these items to they value?
11. To weigh down or burden; to fill up, block, hinder
12. The opposite of a prosaic composition is a ..... composition
13. The opposite of heresy is
14. In which Washington Irving book does the short story "Rip Van Winkle" appear?
15. What is a word that modifies a noun?
16. Who wrote the "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" ?
17. The reason why Washington agreed to "compromise" with the former bosses is that:
18. Repetition of the beginning sounds of words
19. Which of the following is NOT a literary manifestation of the Literature of Exploration?
20. There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness, and cursing them daily with grievous execrations, and did not let to tell them, that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, ..... But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard.